Improvement in bird-cages



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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN MAXHEIMER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BIRD-CAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162.400, dated April 20, 1875; application led February 6, 187 5.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN MAXEEIMER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bird-Gage, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a side view of a bird-cage having myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through one ofthe horizontal wires of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail side view ot' a modiication of the invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

This invention has for its object to produce an improved joint and connection between the horizontal and the upright wires of a birdcage; and consists in crimping or bending the vertical wires after the same have been put through a perforated horizontal wire directly above and below the horizontal wire, thereby to lock the horizontal wire, and prevent it from sliding up or down on the upright wires.

ln the accompanying drawing, the letters A A represent the upright wires, and the letters B B the horizontal wires, of a bird-cage. The horizontal wires are of larger diameter than the upright wires, and each horizontal wire is perforated once for each upright wire, and all the upright wires are drawn through the respective apertures of each horizontal wire, as indicated. After the vertical wires have been drawn through the horizontal wire, they are all crimped or bent directly below and above each horizontal wire, either outward, as in Fig. 3, or inward, as in Fig. l, the bent or crimped portions serving to lock the horizontal wire at the proper height, so it can neither slip up or down.

Heretofore, when the upright wires were drawn through a perforated horizontal wire of a bird-cage, the horizontal wire was punched or compressed to fasten it to the uprights,

this being an operation at once tedious and e difcult to perform, and one leaving its defacing marks or indentations on the horizontal wire. By my invention the mere bending of the thin upright Wires is very easy to perform, and serves to give a richer and more pleasing outline to the cage, as shown in Figs. l and 3, and the process is so much easier to perform than the ordinary process of punching or indenting the horizontal wire that my cage will be less expensive. It is also of better appear- 

